Anonymus, Præludium (Ms. Lynar B3, folio 11)
Last year I published all the works contained in manuscript Ms Lynar B3. Or so I thought. Today I wanted to create and upload a spotify playlist for all those pieces and found one...
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Antonio Vivaldi, Largo from Violin concerto in f minor, RV 297 (l’Inverno)
Almost 6 months ago I made a transcription of the middle part of Vivaldi’s third Flute Concerto. Today, I heard someone play a transcription of the second part of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto l’Inverno on...
Gottfried Kirchhoff, Was mein Gott will das g’scheh allzeit
This choral prelude on the melody of “Was mein Gott will das g’scheh allzeit” is a straightforward piece. The introduction is a short fugato on the first line of the choral melody. Then follows...
Gottfried Kirchhoff (?), Ciaconna sopra “Herzlich lieb hab ich dich O Herr”
It’s been a while since I published a composition from manuscript Mus. Ms. 40037. The last one was Kirchhoff’s ciaconna on Ach, Herr mich armen Sünder. The next composition in the manuscript is a...
Auke Jongbloed, Hymn 311 of the Dutch Protestant Hymn Book 1973, Op. 3
Even though I love Baroque music, it is not the style of music I like to use to write music. If music is like story telling, the Baroque style is not the what I...
Auke Jongbloed, Fugue (g minor), Op. 2
My study annex music room is a mess, let’s be honest about that. It is crammed full with four instruments (organ, piano, violin and a guitar), books, materials of three studies (biochemistry, IT and...
Dietrich Buxtehude, Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178
The only source available for this composition is the Frankenberger manuscript, in the posession of “Het Nederlands Muziekinstituut”, the national library of The Netherlands. The manuscript is named after one of the former posessors...
Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio d minor, BWV 583
There remains no autograph of this the Trio in d minor, BWV 583. All sources of this work are copies written somewhere after Bach’s death. Though there were once 11 manuscripts with a version...
Gottfried Kirchhoff, Ach Herr mich armen Sünder
Kirchhoff seems to have elvated the ciaconna to his trademark technique for writing a choral prelude. His prelude to the famous melody of “Ach Herr mich armen Sünder” has a theme of eight bars...
Wilhelm Karges, B.M, Capricio in A
The Capricio in A, written on folio 27 of manuscript Am.B 340 bears the intials “B.M.”. It is unknown which composer is meantby these initials. As Karges was familiar with the circle of Sweelinck...
Wilhelm Karges, Sebastian Anton Scherer, Ricercar Primi Toni
In his adaptations Karges did not only shorten the original compositions he based his adaptations on, sometimes he elongated the originals as well. The Ricercar Primi Toni is an example of the latter. This...
Antonio Vivaldi, Cantabile from Flute Concerto nr 3, RV 428
Antonio Vivaldi never was a composor of organ music. Yet some of his works lend themselfes perfectly for transcription for the organ. One of those pieces is the second movement of Vivaldi’s third Flute...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia in D
The Fantasia in D, written on folio 25 of manuscript Am.B 340 is again an anonymous work. It is again an Echo Fantasia and has many similarities with the preceding one. I am inclined...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz (LV 52)
Zachow’s prelude to “Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz” (LV 52) consists of two seperate movenements in manuscript Mus ms 40037. In the catalogue of Zachow’s compositions they are listed under the same entry,...
Wilhelm Karges, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelick, Fantasia in D (after SwWV 260)
Karges was familiar with the compositions of Sweelinck through Andreas Düben (1597 – 1662). Düben was a pupil of Sweelinck in Amsterdam from 1614 to 1620. And when Düben became organist of the German...